"Twilight on Strawberry Hill"

This is a historical and rare photograph in that there are very few evenings where there is no haze in the sky. Through cooperation with Mike Thompson, meteorologist for WDAF TV, this perfect twilight time was selected. We had a very short window. The scene can't ever be reproduced as one of the buildings, Snows Meat Market in the foreground, has been totally demolished, forever changing the scene.

Another factor - the scene could not be photographed on a hot day as the compressors go on and shake the roof, rendering time exposures impossible.

This final piece is ten photographs blended together: five bracketed vertical exposures on the left and five on the right. These were merged together into two images which were then blended again into one. The detail is so minute that this print could be blown up eight feet with no degradation.

Gallery Wrapped Canvas Prints (do not need frame for hanging)

12 x 24 $190.00
18 x 36 $300.00
24 x 48 $440.00
30 x 60 $570.00
36 x 72 $770.00
38 x 84 $890.00
38 x 96 $1,130.00

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"Harry the Huckster"

Harry the Huckster is a rare view of life "on the hill" from the 1920's to perhaps the 1970's. I made this photograph on October, 1957, when I was released as a photographer from the Navy, serving two years on the USS Kearsarge, an Aircraft Carrier in the Pacific.

I shot it with a 4 x 5 camera and processed it in the darkroom that I converted from my dad's wine cellar which was a coal bin prior to that at 415 Thompson. This image is of Mrs. Major and Mrs. Vrabac at Harry's truck across the street from my grandfather's house at 427 Thompson. Notice the red brick street and the truck facing uphill. Later the bricks were covered and the street made a one way going down.

$215 each

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